(Ireland is Charley’s childhood friend for a moment or two, for instance.) The trio of superstars seem to have been cast for their flexible voices - all three can plunge down the octave, changing to be the men who know Charley, then returning to their usual registers again. Other characters surface in the story, and the three actresses play them too. I remember the clean smell of his shirts.Īnd the noise of the street and you warning me to be careful of the traffic. Here, for instance, are Charley and Claudette talking about Charley’s childhood on 11th Street: (Life told this way is basically a catalogue of losses.) The three women recite a swift, sketching path through their memories, all narrating the story, sometimes agreeing, sometimes making corrections.
Vincent’s hospital, where she sees both the AIDS crisis and 9/11 up close. There’s all of the real world to reflect too, so Charley works for decades at St. It’s really Charley’s tale we only learn enough about Claudette and Tessa to understand her behavior as a daughter and a mother.
In an intermission-less 100 minutes, Stephens lays out more than a half-century of their lives, starting with Claudette’s move to New York in 1947 and ending … as any life history does. The three women in Morning Sun are listed in the script as 1, 2, and 3, though we come to know them (mostly) as Charley McBride (Edie Falco) her mother, Claudette (Blair Brown) and Charley’s daughter, Tessa (Marin Ireland). Instead it’s a three-way conversation among women who are, perhaps, reminiscing, though their knowledge goes beyond the limits of the grave. Stephens wants to find the elegant, lonesome quality of the finished painting, so to get there, he uses a theatrical version of the studies’ stepwise, scribbly, charcoal progression. If you go to the Whitney’s website, you can see three drawings Hopper did as he changed a recognizable sketch of his wife into one of his flat-affect illustrations of human isolation. What New York has are the iterative studies. I did a little searching around, and it turns out that Morning Sun - Hopper’s lapidary painting of a woman looking out her window - actually hangs in Columbus, Ohio. The gallery guard strikes up a conversation, which leads to one of the sad episodes of the woman’s not-entirely-sad life, the subject of Stephens’s not-entirely-sad play. One day, she stops in front of the Edward Hopper painting Morning Sun. In the new drama Morning Sun by Simon Stephens, a young single mother, desperate for places to walk in New York, starts going to museums, wandering the galleries with the baby in her stroller. Edie Falco, Marin Ireland, and Blair Brown in Morning Sun, at City Center.
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